Satisfactory's first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution

Satisfactory’s first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution

It’s been a long, dry year since Satisfactory last received a major update. Version 1.1 of Coffee Stain’s hugely popular factory sim launched almost exactly twelve months ago, bringing proper controller support, an improved photo mode, better resource transportation, and more. Yet outside of a few hotfixes, that’s been it for fans of building enormously…

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Diablo 4 will be Steam Deck ready when it leaves its Battle.net exclusivity next week, confirms community director

Diablo 4’s leap to Steam—alongside other games like Overwatch 2—is welcome news to gamers wanting to keep their rigs launcher-slim. Adam Fletcher, the game’s Global Community Development Director, has fully confirmed on Twitter that the game will be coming Steam Deck verified next Tuesday. (Image credit: @PezRadar on Twitter/X) Regrettably, it looks like there won’t…

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Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says he’s got no time for people who do game adaptations without playing them—’That’s outrageous’

Director Paul W. S. Anderson, who helmed the likes of Mortal Kombat (1995), Resident Evil (2002), and Monster Hunter (2021), has just done a new interview on Chris Plante’s (excellent) podcast Post Games. It’s a lengthy and enjoyable listen, and Anderson speaks at some length about the thought process behind that first Resident Evil movie…

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Escape from Tarkov owners will have to buy it again if they want to play through Steam, and the Steam version will require a Battlestate account anyway

Escape from Tarkov is finally crossing the Rubicon into a 1.0 release on November 15, and it just unveiled something that might be a little surreal if you’ve followed the game’s eight years in early access: its very own Steam page, where it’ll soon have achievements, the Steam overlay, friends list integration and all that…

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The best strategy games in 2023

Strategy is the quintessential PC genre, keeping us buried in maps, army lists and build orders since the earliest days of PC gaming. And it’s one of the most diverse, catering to everyone from hardcore grognards to people who just want to see Gandhi nuke Montezuma.  In this list, you’ll find everything from fast-paced, competitive…

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The Invincible review

Need to Know What is it? A narrative-led first-person adventure based on Stanislaw Lem’s 1960s sci-fi novel. Release date November 6, 2023 Expect to pay TBA Developer Starward Industries Publisher 11 bit studios Reviewed on RTX 2070, i7-10750H, 16GB RAM Steam Deck TBA Link Official site Adaptations of novels are still rare among games, and…

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